The US Federal Bureau of Investigation says it's investigating a series of alleged incidents across the country in which 'Tesla charging stations and dealerships were damaged.' On Thursday, Attorney General Pam Bondi highlighted charges against three people accused of throwing Molotov cocktails at Tesla vehicles and, in at least one alleged incident, writing 'profane messages against President Trump' near Tesla charging stations, among other crimes. 'Let this be a warning: If you join this wave of domestic terrorism against Tesla properties, the Department of Justice will put you behind bars,' Bondi said in a news release detailing the arrests, which were made over the last several weeks in Oregon, Colorado, and South Carolina. Civil liberties experts claim treating alleged attacks against Tesla cars and infrastructure as terrorist activity could give federal and local law enforcement broad authority to surveil people protesting Elon Musk's role in the government. The terrorism designation could also allow Musk and other Tesla executives to access information authorities uncover in their investigations....

In the waning days of the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of State took its first major step against terrorism groups primarily focused on what is called 'accelerationism' ' the effort to inspire independent followers to engage in violence in ways that broadly destabilize society. The U.S. government has long targeted actively violent terrorist organizations such as al-Qaida ' the group behind the 9/11 attacks ' and the Islamic State group, which carried out beheadings of innocent civilians in Iraq and Syria. Then-FBI Director Christopher Wray repeatedly warned Congress about the threat to national security from far-right accelerationist groups. In a move to respond to those warnings, the Biden administration labeled the online-only 'Terrorgram Collective' and three of its leaders as specially designated global terrorists, which means their financial assets are frozen and anyone who tries to support them can be arrested. The Terrorgram Collective aims to destroy the current global economic and political structure and spark a war between white people and people of other racial and ethnic backgrounds. To accomplish that, it maintains an online forum on the Telegram social media platform. The forum's posts, from leaders and followers alike, are characterized by people spouting violent rhetoric and incitement to violence against minorities, Jewish people and governments....

While the investigation is still ongoing, some details about the suspect have been released. Authorities say Shamsud-Din Jabbar, a U.S. Army veteran, was behind the assault in which a truck was driven into a dense crowd in New Orleans' French Quarter a few hours after midnight, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more. Jabbar, who died in a shoot-out with police, had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group in online videos posted on Dec. 31, according to the FBI. It represents the first major assault on an American city by an individual purportedly influenced by the Islamic State group, or one of its affiliates, since a 2017 truck assault in New York City that killed eight. The New Orleans attack, like that earlier incident, underscores an important point: While the Islamic State group's territorial caliphate ' the area in Syria and Iraq in which it assumed both political and religious authority and sought to enforce its interpretation of Islamic law ' has been dismantled, the group's ability to inspire acts of terror on U.S. soil through online propaganda and ideological influence remains alarmingly potent....

On Monday, United States prosecutors in Sacramento, California, unveiled a 15-count indictment accusing Dallas Erin Humber, 34, and Matthew Robert Allison, 37, of serving as core members of a virulent neo-Nazi propaganda network that solicited attacks on federal officials, power infrastructure, people of color, and material support for acts of terrorism both within the US and overseas. The group, known as the Terrorgram Collective, has produced four publications to date'a blend of ideological motivation, mass murder worship, neofascist indoctrination, and how-to manuals for chemical weapons attacks, infrastructure sabotage, and ethnic cleansing. The screeds have directly inspired a series of ideologically motivated attacks around the world, including a 2022 mass shooting at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, Slovakia; successful attacks on power infrastructure in North Carolina and similar failed plots in Baltimore and New Jersey; and a stabbing spree in the Turkish city of Eskisehir. Federal prosecutors allege Humber, Allison, and other Terrorgram Collective members were in the process of compiling a fifth, yet-to-be-released publication devoted to a pantheon of 'saints''neofascist mass murderers like Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik. The point of this guide, prosecutors claim, was to 'inspire Terrorgram users to commit acts of violence.'...